Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

The Project Manager (PM) in concert with the Superintendent delivers assigned construction projects on time, within budget, and within scope and quality standards designed within the project plan and specifications. The PM consistently monitors project progress to maintain awareness to assess when their involvement is necessary to diplomatically resolve conflict key to ensuring the project team works cohesively towards project success. The PM creates, maintains, and monitors with key team members the project plan, schedule, and budget and is responsible for ensuring that interim milestones are met though project close-out. While there are technical requirements and experience that must be demonstrated, the PM demonstrates leadership in their ability to be creative at times in their application of effective communication, establishing trust, integrity, sociability, flexibility all the while making decisions timely and with the “right” amount of information. The PM negotiates skillfully while effectively managing relationships and expectations to problem solve, manage change as well as anticipate and manage risk to minimize or mitigate potential issues. The Project Manager illustrates a proficient knowledge of construction management expertise with primary focus on schedule development and control, contract and subcontract management, profit reporting and variance analysis. The PM embraces their responsibility of representing and effectively enhancing Neeley Construction’s reputation given their daily interaction and access to both project and organizational partners. The PM understands when to leverage and engage with the various resources available (People, Process and Technology) to ensure project and organizational success.

Essential Duties / Key Responsibilities

Safety First – The PM adopts and supports the overall safety culture on the project site.

• Supports and adopts project site safety with a high regard and willingness to take safety seriously
• Understands and adopts project site safety requirements, standards, and procedures
• Periodically attends job-site safety meetings
• Ensures collection of all safety required documentation from orientation to close-out
• Engages when necessary to resolve job site safety concerns or issues
• Ensures compliance with legal regulations
• Ensures in coordination with the Superintendent that all required permits, licenses have been obtained and safety notices posted

General Construction Expertise – The PM will demonstrate deep seated knowledge in the areas below to apply to any assigned project or request for estimating and bidding support.

• Review and understand plans and specifications for constructability, scheduling, take-off and estimating
• Coordinate with Superintendent to develop the Critical Path Method (CPM) detail project schedule identifying sequencing and activity duration including identifying materials, labor, equipment needs
• Develop, review, and manage the project plan with the project team
• Understand building systems, self-performance scope and subcontractor scopes of work to direct prioritization sequencing and timing of specific work packages or deliverables, and when to issue change orders

Project Leadership & Delivery Management – The PM will provide both leadership and management in the duties below either through active participation, coordination or oversight and delegating to others.

• Identify and develop healthy/effective working relationships with the project owner/architect and other key project resources
  • Serve as primary contact between owner and contractor on awarded contracts
  • Attend regularly owner/architect meetings
  • Respond to owner/architect requests and/or issues and collaborate with Superintendent and team to develop resolution to problems
  • Consistently and professionally communicates with building owners to enhance their confidence in Neeley Construction
• Examine project plans and specifications to prioritize, write and issue subcontracts
  • Analyze project scope of work and priorities with superintendent and project team
  • Collaborate to resolution on any design and constructability issues with superintendent and project team
  • Consult when appropriate with Superintendent on Subcontractor Scopes, RFIs, Submittals, Change Orders
  • Ensure and enforce collection of all signed and fully executed subcontract agreements and other required documentation
• Develop CPM Schedule, update and communicate to appropriate stakeholders regularly
  • Meet regularly with project team to stay on top and manage risks to schedule
  • Review weekly look ahead schedules, maintain compliance, communicate risks, provide solutions
  • Ensure monitoring of expenses to meet or beat budget process is in place and being managed effectively
  • Review Daily Reports documenting to stay abreast of daily progress
• Change Control Management
  • Manage changes in scope and other success factors in an open and controlled way
  • Monitor progress and need for change order processing
  • Draft Change Order Proposal’s (COP) and Issue Cost Notices to Owners
  • Compile and submit cost issues
  • Review and ensure management of Cost Change Directives (CCDs) or Field Authorizations (FAs)
• Payment Processing & Cost Control
  • Analyze actual project performance against baseline plans, identify variances, and institute corrective actions to bring actual performance “under control”
  • Provide profit projection reporting
  • Create schedule of values
  • Create and manage Job Billings regularly and track timely collection of payments
  • Approve subcontractor requests for payments
• Risk / Issue Management Control (Oversee activities of risk management plan)
  • Collaborate with project team to identify and analyze risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and who/when to initiate mitigating actions
  • Gather input and rank project risks in terms of impact, probability, overall severity and priority
  • Communicate regularly via a risk log to internal project team and management
  • Arbitrate to resolve conflicts and problems within the project in coordination with the project team
  • Resolve issues related to site staffing, client/business partner relations, governmental/inspection agency relations, quality, risk and safety timely and in coordination with the Superintendent
• Project Close-Out
  • Ensure project close-out activities and hand-off formerly occurs within management defined time-frame from substantial completion
• Mentor and train staff
  • To broaden and deepen knowledge and experience in construction management
  • Provide constructive feedback for desired improvements and desired outcomes

Qualifications

Soft Skills or Key Attributes (in no priority order and of equal weight)

• Strong team leadership skills with ability to influence, motivate, and mobilize teams
• Comfortable executing promptly and efficiently in an ambiguous and frequently changing environment
• Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions proactively and in the moment
• Excellent task, organization of work and time management skills
• Strong ability to clearly and effectively communicate and present
• Willingness to train and mentor less experienced personnel
• Adaptability and flexibility including ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change with poise
• Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking, with ability to negotiate within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests and make decisions

Technical Skills

• Extensive knowledge of project management methodology and demonstrated competency in related processes
• Budget management skills, ability to analyze and report on project budgetary information
• Possess strong mathematical/estimating skills, calculate proper dimensions of components
• Computer skills including experience with the primary Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with project management and scheduling software or willingness to adopt and utilize as called upon

Education Requirements and Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management or Equivalent degree or applicable experience
• LEED Certification optional
• Certification in Design-Build Institute of America, preferred

Years of Experience

• Previous commercial project management experience is preferred
• Proven track record of successfully managing projects from $10 to $20 million dollars is preferred

Neeley Construction is a third-generation company serving Western Washington. Our main office is located in Puyallup and another office in Sequim. Even as we’ve grown since our founding in the 1950s, we are true to our roots: we know that our reputation for integrity and professionalism must be re-earned with every project.

Company Description

Neeley Construction is a third-generation company serving Western Washington. Our main office is located in Puyallup and another office in Sequim. Even as we’ve grown since our founding in the 1950s, we are true to our roots: we know that our reputation for integrity and professionalism must be re-earned with every project.

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